Hi Mr Chee, I’ve was wondering if I could ask a couple of questions regarding referencing within in the Holocron:

1) Within the Holocron, how are the firepower statistics of ships and vehicles derived and recorded? Do you simply use statistics taken from a source where figures are specifically listed (such as the Inside the Worlds/Incredible Cross-sections books, RPG sourcebooks or novels where a firepower figure is stated) or do you take into account the various descriptions and depictions of firepower displayed in the different Star Wars sources and amalgamate them in some way to derive a figure?

2) On a similar note (and I could be mistaken about this as I’m working from memory, so apologies if this is the case), I was under the impression that former Star Wars author Gary Sarli mentioned a while ago now that he considered the firepower statistics in the Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-sections book to be incorrect and said he would discuss the possibility of creating a more appropriate retcon for them with Lucas Licensing; did this ever come to pass, or are the firepower statistics within the AotC ICS still considered canonical by the Holocron?

Your answer makes sense in theory, but if it were just a matter of "space is big", then why didn't they attack the planet from its poles? All sci-fi does it, when they protect a planet by putting a fleet along the equator, and the enemy attacks from the equator. Or they put a fleet along one specific spacelane, when they could easily go up and over it. Come at the planet from a different angle!

That bothered me in ARC Troopers. It bothers me more in Star Trek though (see the series finale of DS9, where the Dominion puts a fleet on the direct path between DS9 and Cardassia, and the UFP plows right through it instead of going over.

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Perhaps it can be said that there's a short delay between the film and Downfall/Duel (which is tentatively said to the be the first arc following the film)? Long enough to recover the ship and put the wing back on?

It may have been a quick patch job too. After all, only a short time later, the ship lost its lower wing again (in Slaves of the Republic), and I thought it crashed or got damaged a third time as well (I forget the source though).

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Hey Mr. Chee, I have a question concerning the son of Mon Mothma, Jobin. It has come to my attention that The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia has identified him as the Rebel officer in Episode V who can be heard informing Echo Base personnel about the presence of Imperial troops: "Imperial troops have entered the base! Imperial troops have..." Reading the comic "Entrenched" however, it looks like the writers of the CSWE misinterpreted the series of events. The officer in the comic who is shown giving the above warning is clearly not Jobin, as Jobin is busy trying to reach the ion cannon's fire control button the same time the warning is given, and subsequently has to fight off a snowtrooper. The officer who gives the warning is also shot mid-transmission. Are we to take the comic's representation as fact and dismiss the CSWE as being mistaken? Thanks.

Oh, I'm sure some of it has to be just a teensy bit canon. Like that giant wheel-of-fortune in the main Jedi lobby. I now understand why Qui-Gon immediately resorted to gambling everything he owned (or rather, did not own) without a second thought. It's obviously the Jedi way!

What? That game was never supposed to be canon. There's no story, just mini-games.

I'm pretty impressed by the Arc Troopers episode.

It's well realized (besides some mistakes, like the holo of the battle, absolutely inconsistent), with a good (but too short) battle, a very good Ventress/Anakin duel...well, I liked it.

I'm pretty sure this episode can be a key to the chronology : it's very clear in it that many times passed since Geonosis : Clone Cadets show the war is already advanced (presence of ARC Troopers, need of fresh men...), and in the second episode it's said that Fives and Echo wasn't there for some times. This means that the series started when the war wages since several monthes, and not one, since the rookies were...rookies in the Rookies episode, but veteran in ARC Troopers.

This, plus the In the Republic Service "one year after Geonosis" and the wound of Wolffe can be a good thing, for a TCW season One in the last monthes of the first year, and Season Two and Three in the second year of the war.

So the question is : does the timeline from In the Republic Service is correct ?

Edited by: Le Passant on Sep 19, 2010 10:31 AM

That would be a good idea. The endnotes for the Atlas do point out that they don't quite specifically say whether or not it rotates, just that it has an unusual rotation pattern, so if there are indeed planets in real life that would satisfy both requirements for most story purposes (the stories until now have taken place in the same season or something) that would work.

That would work great. There are many retcons that would work great and make TCW just fine in regards to canon. Licensing doesn't tend to use these retcons.

Hello, Mr. Chee. I was wondering if the representation of Revan in the Timeline videos 8 and 9 are supposed to be canonical depictions? I remember when you said here that the figure's representation was a possible version of Revan, and since Rob Chestney said here that the images were Gnost Dural's interpretation, and not entirely accurate, since there is 300 years separating his recordings and the end of the Jedi Civil War. So, because the videos depict Revan as a light-skinned man with black, flowing hair, does this mean that he indeed was, or is this merely a possible version, as the figure was? Thanks in advance for your response, Mr. Chee.